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Network of Concerned Farmers (Monday, Dec. 16, 2002 -- CropChoice news) -- The following is from Australia's Network of Concerned Farmers
Network of Concerned Farmers - GM news (16th December 2002)
Welcome to the Network of Concerned Farmers mailing list, thank you for
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This update is a summary of our news articles posted on our site over the
past week. The issues are wide ranging and basically reveal why consumers
are rejecting the GM products, subsequent market implications, segregation
issues (difficulties, legislation, costs and liabilities) and alternative
technologies.
The introduction of GM crops will have serious implications to farmers and
we would like to share our concerns with you. This list will give regular
updates of issues relating to the release of Genetically Engineered crops
in Australia. For more information about the Network of Concerned Farmers,
please visit our website at http://www.non-gm-farmers.com
Regards, Julie Newman
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GM News 9th December - 15th December 2002
- 12/13/2002 EU Chefs campaign against GMO's
- 12/12/2002 Zero GM contamination tolerance aim for EU
- 12/12/2002 GE deadline looms early 2003
- 12/12/2002 U.K. Farmer warns against GM path
- 12/12/2002 The plight of the non-GM grower
- 12/10/2002 India - BT cotton fraud proved
- 12/10/2002 Rejected GM food aid removed from Zambia
- 12/9/2002 Fears of GM food cancer link
+ summary of previous stories
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- 12/13/2002 EU Chefs campaign against GMO's
"Europe's top chefs and restaurant owners are, according to this story,
going into a battle of the tastebuds to protect their culinary heritage
and cherished regional foods from genetically modified (GM) products and
other 'multinational threats'"
http://www.non-gm-farmers.com/news_details.asp?ID=86
- 12/12/2002 Zero GM contamination tolerance aim for EU
"The proposal allows for the so-called "adventitious" presence of such
organisms up to a level of 0.5 percent; the threshold drops to zero after
three years. The tolerance is zero for those varieties that received no
reviews, much less authorization, when the moratorium began."
http://www.non-gm-farmers.com/news_details.asp?ID=85
- 12/12/2002 GE deadline looms early 2003
"One of the most disturbing outcomes, for me, was the speed of resistance
to herbicides by the GE volunteers... "
http://www.non-gm-farmers.com/news_details.asp?ID=84
- 12/12/2002 U.K. Farmer warns against GM path
"Because you are so based on exports as a country, you would be mad to go
down the GM road."
"Mr Watkins said at the moment he could not grow genetically modified
crops because he grows vegetables and the supermarkets will not take
vegetables from land which has grown GM crops."
http://www.non-gm-farmers.com/news_details.asp?ID=82
- 12/10/2002 India - BT cotton fraud proved
"The study, conducted in 11 villages of Warangal district in AP, states
that in economic terms, Bt cotton has proved a total failure."
http://www.non-gm-farmers.com/news_details.asp?ID=80
- 12/10/2002 Rejected
GM food aid removed from Zambia
"The UN World Food Programme has, according to this story, begun to ship
emergency food supplies out of Zambia, even though 3m of the country's
people are facing severe food shortages." "Zambia has rejected the WFP's
supply of genetically modified food."
http://www.non-gm-farmers.com/news_details.asp?ID=79
- 12/9/2002 Fears of GM food cancer link
"Eating genetically modified (GM) food could give you cancer. That is the
stark warning today from one of Scotland's leading experts in tissue
diseases." http://www.non-gm-farmers.com/news_details.asp?ID=78
Other stories: Archives: http://www.non-gm-farmers.com/news_archive.asp |
